Dear Reader,
As we reach the final issue of Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy for 2019, we wish to reflect on another successful year’s achievements, and to thank all those who have contributed their time and effort to guarantee the high quality of our content.
2019 was a successful year for Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy. Over 60 articles have been published; the most popular of these, in terms of downloads from SpringerLink, have been:
MicroRNAs and Long Non-coding RNAs in Genetic Diseases. Finotti, A., Fabbri, E., Lampronti, I. et al. Mol Diagn Ther (2019) 23: 155.
Disruptive Technology: CRISPR/Cas-Based Tools and Approaches. Patsali, P., Kleanthous, M. & Lederer, C.W. Mol Diagn Ther (2019) 23: 187.
Rare Opportunities: CRISPR/Cas-Based Therapy Development for Rare Genetic Diseases. Papasavva, P., Kleanthous, M. & Lederer, C.W. Mol Diagn Ther (2019) 23: 201.
Bioinformatic Methods and Bridging of Assay Results for Reliable Tumor Mutational Burden Assessment in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Chang, H., Sasson, A., Srinivasan, S. et al. Mol Diagn Ther (2019) 23: 507.
Prognostic and Predictive Epigenetic Biomarkers in Oncology. Kamińska, K., Nalejska, E., Kubiak, M. et al. Mol Diagn Ther (2019) 23: 83.
Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA with a Single-Molecule Sequencing Analysis Validated for Targeted and Immunotherapy Selection. Atkins, A., Gupta, P., Zhang, B.M. et al. Mol Diagn Ther (2019) 23: 521.
Quantitation of all Four Gardnerella vaginalis Clades Detects Abnormal Vaginal Microbiota Characteristic of Bacterial Vaginosis More Accurately than Putative G. vaginalis Sialidase A Gene Count. Shipitsyna, E., Krysanova, A., Khayrullina, G. et al. Mol Diagn Ther (2019) 23: 139.
Non-invasive Prenatal Testing Using Fetal DNA. Breveglieri, G., D’Aversa, E., Finotti, A. et al. Mol Diagn Ther (2019) 23: 291.
Clinicopathological Significance of Overall Frequency of Allelic Loss (OFAL) in Lesions Derived from Thyroid Follicular Cell. Migdalska-Sęk, M., Czarnecka, K.H., Kusiński, M. et al. Mol Diagn Ther (2019) 23: 369.
Highlighting the Role of Biomarkers of Inflammation in the Diagnosis and Management of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Bharwani, K.D., Dik, W.A., Dirckx, M. et al. Mol Diagn Ther (2019) 23: 615.
The quality of articles published in the journal is also reflected in its most recent impact factor 3.058, up from 2.716, putting the journal in a very respectable central (Q2) position in the Genetics & Heredity journal category.
We thank the authors who have contributed articles to Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy over the course of 2019. The skill and dedication of all authors are critical to the continued publication of the journal. The quality of published articles is also testament to the significant efforts of the peer reviewers, whose commitment ensures that the journal’s content is held to the highest possible standard. We would like to thank the following individuals who acted as reviewers for Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy in the last 12 months:
Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas, Mexico
Jaffer A. Ajani, USA
Monther Al-Alwan, Saudi Arabia
Sergio E. Alvarez, Argentina
Kazuhiro Araki, Japan
Amir Arastehfar, The Netherlands
María José Ariza, Spain
Yasir Atlasi, The Netherlands
Chun Hang Au, Hong Kong
Leomar Ballester, USA
Roger Barraclough, UK
M.A. Benakanakere, USA
Stefano Bertolini, Italy
Susinjan Bhattacharya, India
Joseph J. Borg, Malta
Nicolas Borisov, The Russian Federation
Valeria Brazzelli, Italy
Stephane Bretagne, France
Ralph Buchert, Germany
Ismael Buno, Spain
Andrew Burgess, Australia
Mark E. Burkard, USA
Ana Bustamante-Aragonés, Spain
Joel N. Buxbaum, USA
Giacomo Caldarola, Italy
Isabelle Callebaut, France
Amancio Carnero, Spain
June Carroll, Canada
Ricardo Celestino, Portugal
Dick C-F. Chan, Australia
Matilda F. Chan, USA
Natalie Chandler, UK
Nikolaos Charalampakis, Greece
Nicolas Chatron, France
Maria I. Chiamolera, Brazil
Robert R.J. Coebergh van den Braak, The Netherlands
Richard Colling, UK
Eliecer Coto, Spain
Frank A.W. Coumans, The Netherlands
Mathias Dahlmann, Germany
Liliana Dain, Argentina
Iwijn De Vlaminck, USA
Joep C. Defesche, The Netherlands
Marc Denis, France
Jolanta Dorszewska, Poland
Peter D. Drummond, Australia
Katja Dumic, Croatia
Christelle M. El Achkar, USA
Mark D. Ewalt, USA
Uthayashanker R. Ezekiel, USA
Henrik Falhammar, Sweden
Monica Fedele, Italy
Diana Ferraro, Italy
Kevin E. Fisher, USA
Antonio Fontanellas, Spain
Gabriella Fontanini, Italy
Renato Franco, Italy
David N. Fredricks, USA
Guy Froyen, Belgium
Vijay Gadkar, Canada
Silvia Galbiati, Italy
Luca Gallelli, Italy
Marco Galluzzo, Italy
Parisa Gazerani, Denmark
Qinyu Ge, China
Vilmantas Gegzna, Lithuania
François Girardin, Switzerland
David E. Goldsbury, Australia
Raul Gonzalez, USA
Elin Gray, Australia
Stacy W. Gray, USA
Christina Gross, USA
Francesca Guerrieri, Italy
Rong Guo, China
Wilfried Gwinner, Germany
Juergen Hahn, USA
Yasuo Hamamoto, Japan
Jada Hamilton, USA
Si-ping Han, USA
Thomas V.O. Hansen, Denmark
Kuzhuvelil B. Harikumar, India
Ann Harris, USA
Robert A. Hegele, Canada
Luisa Helguero, Portugal
Robert L. Hendren, USA
D.W. Hilbert, USA
Reinhardt Hohlfeld, Germany
Yuanyu Huang, China
Jaroslav Hubáček, Czech Republic
Cristiane Ida, USA
Katrin M. Jaedicke, UK
Linda Jagodzinski, Afghanistan
Neha Jaiswal, USA
Manoe J. Janssen, The Netherlands
Barbara Jarzab, Poland
Claus Johansen, Denmark
Anders Johansson, Sweden
Patrick Joseph, USA
Gili Kenet, Israel
Annette S. Kim, USA
Jihee Kim, Republic of Korea
Tetsuya Kimura, Japan
Thomas M. Kinfe, Germany
Prasad R. Konkalmatt, USA
Peter Kovacs, Germany
Jaco Kraan, The Netherlands
Robert A. Kratzke, USA
Stefanie Krick, USA
Kishore R. Kumar, Australia
Theodoros Kyriakides, Cyprus
Vanessa Lattimore, New Zealand
Dong Jin Lee, Republic of Korea
Shih-Yu Lee, Taiwan, Republic of China
Sue Chin Lee, USA
Sebastien Lemieux, Canada
Yonghong Li, USA
Fang Liu, China
Cristiana Lo Nigro, Italy
Umberto Malapelle, Italy
Marina Marini, Italy
Jan Martel, Taiwan, Republic of China
John W.M. Martens, The Netherlands
N. Matsumoto, Japan
Keiko Matsuura, Japan
Michael M. Mauk, USA
Stephanie McCalla, USA
Sally M. McFall, USA
Eileen M. McGowan, Australia
André L. Mencalha, Brazil
Caterina Mian, Italy
David T. Miller, USA
Rikke S. Møller, Denmark
Béla Molnár, Hungary
Ryan Morin, Canada
Giuseppe Murdaca, Italy
Vesna Musani, Croatia
Andy Ng, Canada
Zablon K. Njiru, Australia
Michael Oellerich, Germany
Katsuhiro Okuda, Japan
Steven O’Reilly, UK
Augusto Orlandi, Italy
Fritz F. Parl, USA
Lucilla Parnetti, Italy
Fernando Pastor, Spain
Erich Pawelka, Austria
Girolamo Pelaia, Italy
Ljubica Perisic Matic, Sweden
Karol Perlejewski, Poland
Pamela Pinzani, Italy
Pietro Pirina, Italy
Milda Pleckaityte, Lithuania
Catrin Plumpton, UK
Remy Pollock, Canada
Nikoletta Psatha, USA
Ana Rosa Rama, Spain
Pedram Razavi, USA
Jeff Reeve, Canada
Annika Reinersmann, Germany
Ee Chee Ren, Singapore
Nadeem Riaz, USA
Ian Roberts, UK
Ricardo H. Roda, USA
Natassia Rodrigo, Australia
Maria Cristina Rosatelli, Italy
Shannon Rose, USA
Rafael Rosell, Spain
Lorenzo Rossi, Switzerland
Dagmara Rusinek, Poland
Antonio Russo, Italy
Adrian Sacher, Canada
Ulrich Schatz, Austria
Lucas T. Schulz, USA
Jana-Marie Schwarz, Germany
Theresa Scognamiglio, USA
Beth R. Sheidley, USA
Kyrillus S. Shohdy, USA
Yongqian Shu, China
Jia L. Song, USA
Laure Sorber, Belgium
Timo Sorsa, Finland
Johan Staaf, Sweden
Denes Stefler, UK
Olga Sukocheva, Australia
Anna Sulek, Poland
Qing Sun, China
Robyn Sussman, USA
Kengo Takeuchi, Japan
Damu Tang, Canada
Alain Thierry, France
Ivan Tkac, Slovakia
Kid Törnquist, Finland
Daniela Turchetti, Italy
Arnaud Uguen, France
Anna Maria Valentini, Italy
Yiannis Vasilopoulos, Greece
Naveen S. Vasudev, UK
Juha P. Väyrynen, Finland
Eladio A. Velasco, Spain
Jeffery M. Venner, Canada
Joaquim S.L. Vong, Hong Kong
Annabel K. Wang, USA
Thomas D. Wang, USA
Hannah L. Williams, USA
Matthew H. Wilson, USA
Yifei Xu, UK
Hiroyuki Yasuda, Japan
Jianming Ying, China
Weiyu Zhao, USA
Liucun Zhu, China
Bernhard Zimmermann, USA
In addition, we would like to thank the members of the journal’s Honorary Editorial Board, who have acted as peer reviewers and authors, and have provided guidance on journal content, policy and processes:
E. Amir, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
G. Bianchi, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
P.D. Burbelo, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
C.R. Cantor, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
P. Concolino, Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
D.L. Cooper, TGen Specialty Laboratories, Phoenix, AZ, USA
F. Coppedè, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
W. De Spiegelaere, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
J. Desmeules, Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
L.D. Dikkeschei, Isala Klinieken, Zwolle, The Netherlands
A. Farina, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
A.G. Frauman, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
R. Gambari, Ferrara University, Ferrara, Italy
G.S. Ginsburg, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
S. Goodison, Mayo Clinic, Orlando, FL, USA
D. Gurwitz, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
A. Hansen, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
S. Huang, Helomics Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
M. Ingelman-Sundberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
M.W. Jann, University of North Texas, Fort Worth, TX, USA
S.E. Langabeer, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
S.B. Liggett, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
M-T. Lin, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
M.W. Linder, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
C. Lu, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J.J. McCarthy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
U.A. Meyer, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
G.P. Patronis, University of Patras, Patras, Grece
S. Peroutka, Semnur Pharmaceuticals, South San Francisco, CA, USA
M.J. Ratain, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
P.M. Ridker, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
W. Sadee, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
M.M. Shi, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East Hanover, NJ, USA
J. Simecka, UNT System College of Pharmacy, Fort Worth, TX, USA
K.D. Tew, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
J. Tost, Centre National de Recherche en Genomique Humaine, Evry, France
V. Van Deerlin, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
D. Viswanatha, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
C.L. Vnencak-Jones, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
R.L. Woosley, AZERT Inc, Oro Valley, AZ, USA
H.-G. Xie, General Clinical Research Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
We do hope that you have found the articles published throughout the year in Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy to be interesting and informative. The editorial schedule for 2020 is well under way, and we are looking forward to bringing you many high-quality and authoritative articles over the coming year.
With best wishes,
Alison Fitches
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Acknowledgement to Referees. Mol Diagn Ther 23, 677–680 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40291-019-00437-7
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